Side-door seat and door-lock.



W. -S. MENDEN. SIDE DOOR SEAT AND DOOR. LOCK.

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W. S. MENDEN.

SIDE DOOR SEAT AND DOORI LOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2, 191s.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

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WILLIAM S. MENDEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SIDE-DOOR SEAT ANI) DOOR-LOCK.

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Application led January 2. 1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Sept. 23, 1i 913.

seran No. 739,75?.

To @7l whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, VILLIAM S. MnNDnN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn7 county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Side-Door Seats and Door-Locks, of which the follows ing is a .full and clear specification.

This invention relates to passenger care and has for its primary object to provide improved means for increasing the seating capacity of a car by means of seats which are suitably mounted to adapt them to be housed in an out of the way place when not in use and t0 be moved into position on the platform when an increased seating capacity is temporarily called for.

Another object is to provide improved means whereby the space adjacent a doorway can be utilized for seats when said doorway is not being used for the entrancel and exit of passengers.

Other and further objects will appear in the specification and be specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, exemplifying my invention, and in which,

Figure 1 is a horizontal section of the central portion of a traction car, showing my improvements embodied therein, parts being shown in plan; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary loin gitudinal section of the same; Fig. is a fragmentary transverse section of the same, parts being broken away and parts shown in elevation.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the car in which the present exempliication of my invention is embodied comprises a forward section 1 and a rear section 2, of the floor proper, and a platform 3 depressed therebelow, as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. For the salte of clearness the car is considered to be traveling in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1. The platform 3 is as shown in Fig. 3, provided with an inclined portion 4, which leads to a door sill 5, at each side of the car. Said sill is provided with a track (3 upon which doors 7 slide into and out of suitable housings S provided in the side walls of the car in front and rear of the platform 3. In the sections of the car in front and to the rear of the platform 3 are provided fixed seat sections 9 under which the movable seat sections to be presently described are normally disposed, to be out of the way when the doors of that particular side of the car are in use for permitthe ingress and egress of passengers. Referring more especiallyv now to Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing a pair of laterally spaced guide .rails 10 are provided, each of said guide rails comprising an upper horizontal portion secured at l '1 to the fixed seat 9, a lower vertical portion rigidly connected to the floor l, and a central inclined portion which is adapted to raise and lower the movable seat 12 as it is moved longitudinally of the car. llaeh of the movable seats coniprises in theJ preferred embodiment, the seat portion 1Q, a pair of uprights 13 at one end, and inclined braces 14. eX- tending between the uprights 'lf-3 and seats 12. The other end of each seat- 12 is adapt` ed to bc supported by the guide bars l() by means of anti-friction rollers l5, which run on said guide bars, and are suitably mount ed in brackets 16, which are looped beneath the guide bars 10, and serve to retain the seat '12 against lateral displacement. The position of the seat 12 when not in use is shown in dotted lines in Fig. Q.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and '2 it will be seen that near the doors 'i' which are not being used to admit passengers or to permit their egress, the .seats i2 are in endwise abutment. In this position an angle brat-,kel 17 abuts against the inner end of a locking bolt 1S and serves to hold said locking bolt in a position to prevent the doors T being opened. As shown best in liig. 3 the bolt 1S is reciprocably mounted in a gland or collar 19 and is pivotally mounted at 2() Vupon bar or rod 2l, which swings about a pivot 22 journaled in a bea ring block Q23 on the por` tion 1 of the :[loor. AAtesilient means in the form of a spring riveted at one end 25 to the bar 21 tends to normally hold the bar 21 and bolt 1S in a position in which it does not interfere with the doors 7. Adjacent the abutting ends of the seats 12, are provided notches 2G which when the seats 12 are in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, permit the spring 24 to throw the bars 21 into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, thus releasing the doors 7 and 'permitting them to be opened.

The operation and advantages of this construction are apparent from the foregoing description, it being possible by a simple movement, to throw the seats 12 into position across the doors 7 to provide a number of additional seats for passengers when the doors on that side are not in use.

What I claim is:

l. In a passenger car, a door, a movable seat, and door locking means operated by said seat.

2. In a passenger car, a door, a movable seat, and doo-r locking means operated by said seat, said seat being adapted to hold said locking means in locking position.

In a passenger car, a door, a movable seat, and door locking means operated by said seat, said seat being adapted to hold saidlocking means in locking position, in a predetermined position of said door.

4e. In a passenger car, a door, normally inoperative loclring means therefor, and a movable seat adapted to operate said locking means.

5. In a passenger car, a door, normally inoperative locking means therefor, and a movable seat adapted to operate said lock-v ing means, said seat being adapted to release said locking means adjacent one extremity of the seat movement.

6. In a passenger car provided with a doorway, a door for' said doorway, a seat movable into and out of position across said doorway, and means for locking said door in closed position, said means being operated by the seat.

7. In a passenger car, a door, normally inoperative loclring means for said door, and a Vseat movable into and out of position across said door, said door being adapted to operate said locking means adjacent one extremity of its movement and to release said loclring means adjacent the other extremity of its movement.

8. VIn a passenger car, a door, a bolt movable into and out of position to lock said door and a movable seat adapted to operate said bolt.

9. In a passenger car having a platform depressed below the floor proper and a doorway opposite said platform, a seat movable from floor to platform and vice versa, and door locking means operated by said seat in moving from floor to platform.

lO. In a passenger car having a platform depressed below the floor of and disposed intermediately of the ends of said car, a door for said platform, a seat mounted on the.

floor of said car and adapted to be moved into juxtaposition to said door, and means 1l. In a passenger car provided with a floor, a seat thereon, and a platform depressed below said `Hoor, a doorfor said platform, and a seat normally ldisposed beneath the first said seat whenV said door is in use, said seat being movable into juxtaposition to said door when said door isnot in use.

l2. In a'pass'enger car provided with a floor, a seat thereon, and a platform depressed below said door, a door for said platform, a seatnormally disposed beneath the first said seat when said door is in use, said seat being movable into juxtaposition to said door when said door is not inV use, and guide rails for constraining the movements of said movable'seata. I

13. In a passenger car provided with a platform intermediatelyof the ends of said car and depressed below theiloor thereof, doors at opposite sides of said platform, seats constrained to move back and forth between the licor and platform, and means for separately locking said doors, said means being operatively related to the respective seats adjacent said doors.

let. In a passenger car, provided with a central platform and fion-r sections extending in opposite directions from said platform, of seat sections respectively mounted above said floor sections, said seat sections being adapted to be moved-into endwise abutment over said platform.

l5. In a passenger car provided with a central platform and Iioor sections extending in opposite directions from said platform, of seat sections respectively mounted above said floor sections, said seat sections being adapted to be moved into endwise abutment over said platform, and a door for said platform operatively related to one of said seat sections. Y

l wiLLmM s. Missions.

Witnesses WM. A. COURTLAND, PETER M. IILING.

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